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Explanatory Memorandum to the Red Meat Industry (Designation of Slaughterers and Exporters) (Wales) Order 2012
This Explanatory Memorandum has been prepared by the Department for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science and is laid before the National Assembly for Wales in conjunction with the above subordinate legislation and in accordance with Standing Order 27.1.
Minister’s
Declaration
In my view this Explanatory Memorandum gives a fair and reasonable view of the expected impact of the Red Meat Industry (Designation of Slaughterers and Exporters) (Wales) Order 2012.
Alun Davies
Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European Programmes, under authority of the Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science, one of the Welsh Ministers.
1 February 2012
Description
1.
The
purpose of this Statutory Instrument is to designate slaughterers
and exporters as liable to pay the levy from 1 April 2012.
Matters of
special interest to the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs
Committee
2. There are no issues of special interest in this Statutory Instrument.
Legislative
Background
3. The Welsh Ministers may make this Statutory Instrument in exercise of powers conferred by sections 4(3) and 17 of the Red Meat Industry (Wales) Measure 2010 through the negative procedure.
Purpose and
intended effect of the legislation
4. The fundamental purpose of this Statutory Instrument is to designate slaughterers and exporters as being liable to pay a levy.
Consultation
5.
No
specific consultation has been entered into for this Statutory
Instrument because this is one step in a process that started in
2006 when detailed and extensive consultation with the industry and
other interested parties was undertaken as part of the Radcliffe
Report on the Review of the UK Levy Bodies.
6.
The
recommendations in the report on the Radcliffe Review of the levy
bodies were subject to wide consultation. Respondents from
the meat sector were wholly supportive of the idea of having a
Welsh red meat levy-raising body directly accountable to the then
Welsh Assembly Government rather than directly accountable to the
UK Levy Board - AHDB. The idea was accepted by all the main
players including NFU Cymru, HCC, Welsh Lamb & Beef Producers
Ltd. and Farmers’ Union of Wales.
Regulatory
Impact Assessment (RIA)
7.
A
Regulatory Impact Assessment is not required for this Statutory
Instrument.
8. This
Statutory Instrument simply designates slaughterers and exporters
as liable to pay the levy from 1 April 2012. No levy payers
are directly specified in the Measure and therefore it is necessary
to specify the categories of levy payers in this Order.
9.
This Statutory
Instrument does not give rise to any other administrative,
compliance and/or other costs.